The top 250 directors and their best film according to TSPDT/DtC (2012)

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This list contains 250 films by the 250 greatest directors of all time, according to "they shoot pictures don't they?". Each director has one entry; their most critically acclaimed film. Two directors appear more than once on the list (Michael Powell and Stanley Donen) and all together there are 5 director couples (Powell/Pressburger, Donen/Kelly, Coen Brothers, Cooper/Schoedsack and Straub/Huillet). #76 is a TV-mini-series; #81, #151, #157, #180, #190 and #202 are short features, the rest of the entries are featured films.

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  1. 76 new

    Dekalog

    1989, in 11 top lists Check
  2. 86 new

    Shoah

    1985, in 18 top lists Check
  3. 118 new

    Sátántangó

    1994 — a.k.a. Satantango, in 12 top lists Check
  4. 188 new

    Les vampires

    1915, in 14 top lists Check
  5. 62 new

    Napoléon vu par Abel Gance

    1927 — a.k.a. Napoleon, in 24 top lists Check
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    The Art of Vision

    1965, in 2 top lists Check
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    O thiasos

    1975 — a.k.a. The Travelling Players, in 11 top lists Check
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    Lawrence of Arabia

    1962, in 40 top lists Check
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    La maman et la putain

    1973 — a.k.a. The Mother and the Whore, in 14 top lists Check
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    Chelsea Girls

    1966, in 6 top lists Check
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    Shichinin no samurai

    1954 — a.k.a. Seven Samurai, in 36 top lists Check
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    Andrey Rublyov

    1966 — a.k.a. Andrei Rublev, in 29 top lists Check
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    Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080...

    1975, in 12 top lists Check
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    The Falls

    1980, in 3 top lists Check
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    Céline et Julie vont en bateau: Phantom Ladies...

    1974 — a.k.a. Celine and Julie Go Boating, in 11 top lists Check
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    The Right Stuff

    1983, in 13 top lists Check
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    Les enfants du paradis

    1945 — a.k.a. Children of Paradise, in 21 top lists Check
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    JFK

    1991, in 13 top lists Check
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    Vale Abraão

    1993 — a.k.a. Abraham's Valley, in 5 top lists Check
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    Il gattopardo

    1963 — a.k.a. The Leopard, in 18 top lists Check
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    L'albero degli zoccoli

    1978 — a.k.a. The Tree of Wooden Clogs, in 13 top lists Check
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    The Deer Hunter

    1978, in 26 top lists Check
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    The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

    2001, in 31 top lists Check
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    The Godfather

    1972, in 42 top lists Check
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    Yi yi

    2000 — a.k.a. Yi Yi: A One and a Two..., in 19 top lists Check
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    The Great Escape

    1963, in 14 top lists Check
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    Ba wang bie ji

    1992 — a.k.a. Farewell My Concubine, in 18 top lists Check
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    The Best Years of Our Lives

    1946, in 30 top lists Check
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    Heat

    1995, in 23 top lists Check
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    Underground

    1995, in 9 top lists Check
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    C'era una volta il West

    1968 — a.k.a. Once Upon a Time in the West, in 28 top lists Check
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    Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages

    1916, in 24 top lists Check
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    Nashville

    1975, in 21 top lists Check
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    Breaking the Waves

    1996, in 14 top lists Check
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    Van Gogh

    1991, in 5 top lists Check
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    Boogie Nights

    1997, in 12 top lists Check
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    Nuovo Cinema Paradiso

    1988 — a.k.a. Cinema Paradiso, in 20 top lists Check
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    Playtime

    1967, in 19 top lists Check
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    A Woman Under the Influence

    1974, in 14 top lists Check
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    Pulp Fiction

    1994, in 38 top lists Check
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    West Side Story

    1961, in 22 top lists Check
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    All Quiet on the Western Front

    1930, in 19 top lists Check
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    2001: A Space Odyssey

    1968, in 45 top lists Check
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    Pyaasa

    1957, in 10 top lists Check
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    The Wild Bunch

    1969, in 25 top lists Check
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    L'avventura

    1960 — a.k.a. L'Avventura, in 24 top lists Check
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    Rio Bravo

    1959, in 19 top lists Check
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    Soy Cuba

    1964 — a.k.a. I Am Cuba, in 16 top lists Check
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    Fukushû suru wa ware ni ari

    1979 — a.k.a. Vengeance Is Mine, in 10 top lists Check
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    Greed

    1924, in 21 top lists Check
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